Bug#899283: RFP: e-foto -- Educational Digital Photogrammetry Workstation
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : e-foto
Version : 2016.06.425
* URL : http://www.efoto.eng.uerj.br/
* License : GPL
Description : Educational Digital Photogrammetry Workstation
Beta version of E-foto. Contains some bugs that may affect your work.
This is an academic initiative to develop free software for Digital
Photogrammetry. The E-Foto project has been in development at the
Photogrammetry Lab of the Rio de Janeiro State University’s School of
Engineering since 2004.
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The idea behind the E-Foto project was to offer a simple set of software
(a free Digital Photogrammetric Workstation) that could help students
understand the principles behind Photogrammetry, thus bypassing eventual
costs that would have barred many from learning about Photogrammetry. This
objective was reached through the development of free and user-friendly
photogrammetric software.
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This project is multidisciplinary. It involves several fields of knowledge,
including Mathematical Modeling, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Software
Engineering.
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The project is based on two main principles (pillars): freedom and
self-teaching. The final idea is to lead the students to fully understand
the principles behind Photogrammetry by reading the e-book, using the
software, taking a look at its source code, and even modifying it or
developing new modules for it.
I got a draft debian/ directory to build the package based on the
upstream binray deb. Unfortunately this build is using Qt 4. Not sure
if the source will build with Qt 5, it did not when I tested, but I did
not spend time on trying to get it to work.
It might be useful to maintain this package within the Debian GIS
group, <URL: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis >.
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Happy hacking,
Petter Reinholdtsen
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